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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Tristan Kirk

Disabled people face harsh justice in 'secret' fast-track courts, report finds

Disabled people are being failed by a “fundamentally unfair” and secretive fast-track court system which needs to be investigated by Parliament, a new report has found.

The Single Justice Procedure (SJP) was invented a decade ago in a Conservative Party-led cost-cutting drive, allowing magistrates to dish out fines for low-level crimes in private hearings instead of open court.

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